Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1881, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Northwest Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and 11th 8t., by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, GEO. W. ADAMS, Pres't. Tae Evesnsc Stan is served to ul in the eit by carters on theif own account, at 10 conta per eek, oF $4 cents per month. Coles it the counter, 2 fente each, By mali postage prepaid—O0 cents a mon Gne year, $6; six months, $3.0 {Entered st the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class inail matter-} ‘Tae Weexty Sran—pnbiished on Friday —$2 a year, | my Star. - postage prepaid. Six months, $1; 10 copies for $15; copies for #20. ‘ §27 All mail snbscriptions must be paid in advance; paper sent longer th aid for. Rates ilown Gn application. a f advertising made V%: 58—N?: 8,862. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1881. TWO CENTS. y BUILDING Idat Soci cor: mmertown, D.C., TH nek It CE A MEETING TO Fe ASSOCIATION will Le ner Hieh and Prospect « (Wednesday) EV ENIN( EOF F FL of ourlate Bro. W. 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The amount, however, over the exemptions is very small. Owrse To THE CLOSE EXAMINATION required | the result of the recent examinations for pro- motions to first. second and third assissant ex- aminers in the Patent office, will not be deter- | mined or announced for a month or more. OvTsTANDING CurrENcy.—The following is a statement of 3. currency outstanding at this date: Old demand notes, $60,060; legal tender notes, all issues, $346.681,016; one-year notes of 1863, 34, two-year notes of 1863, 312.400; two-year coupon notes of 1863, $23,350; com- | pound interest not 5,280; mal cur- | rency, all issues, #15,474,497.35; total, $362,531,- 568.35. Tre Caprrot Hit. Post Orrice.—Postmas- ter Ainger said to-day that he would not be able to announce until to-morrow what decision had been reached respecting the location of the Cap- itol Hill branch post office. Meanwhile delega- tions and petitions continue to pour in upon the postmaster. The petitioners for the site at the corner of 3d and East Capitol streets outnumber the advocates of the 3d and B streets site three to one. A rather strange thing is, that a feti- tion was received to-day from residents “on the Navy Yard,” asking for the location of the office at the corner of 3d and East Capitol streets, though the 3d and B streets site would appar- ently be the most convenient to them. One ad- vantage of the building offered by Capt. Grant on East Capitol street is that a post office could be opened there in an hour, as it is conveniently arranged. At the corner of 3d and B streets it would be necessary to erect a building. To-day the 3d and East Capitol streets site seemed to be the one most favorably considered. Paymaster GENERAL CvrtTeR, of the navy, was, according to law, placed on the retired list yesterday, and will leave at once with his fam- ily for his home in Massachusetts, where he will remain for a vacation of two or three weeks. His retirement creates serious embarrassment. No one is authorized to appoint his successor except the President, who is too ill to consider the subject. Gen. Cutter, under the law, can- not continue to act.no matter how much he might be disposed to do so. The case presents the first real embarrassment in the matter of the official business of the department which has come up since the unfortunate shooting of the President. Up to the present time the Secre- tary of the has made no assignment for the adminis ion of the office, and it is with- out a head. PrrsovaL.—Judge Settle, of Florida; Col. T. B. Keogh, of North Carolina, and ex-Sergeant- Arms Thompson are at the Ebbitt. Four Washington boys. namely Theodore W. Birney, . Tolman, and N. B. Smitii, enter Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa., next month. Capt. Allen, of the Capital Bi- ‘ycie Club, has gone for a month’s vacat w York and chief § to-morrow morning for a five or six weeks’ trip by his wife. Chambers and family will spend ptember at Round Hill, Va.— Hagner and J. Hubiey Ashton, of Washington, were registered in New York last iss Minnie Rohrer has returned ——Mrs. D. the month of from the mountains of Virginia.—Gen. Paul and family, and D. F. Murphy and family, of | Washington, were registered in Philad Iphia last_night._—Judge Miller leaves Block Island for Saratoga this week. Yorktown Notes, TWO HISTORIC ORGANIZATIONS EXPECTED TO BE PRE: Among the many organizations of reyoln tionary origin expected at the Yorktown cele- bration is the Chatham Artillery, of Savannah, Ga., which dates its life from 1786 to the present time without break or change of name. The members will bring with them two pieces of ordnance of great historical inter ing been surrendered by the British at York. town to Washington, October 19th, 1781. They were presented by Washington to the Chatham | Artittery, of Savannah, z his visit to that city in 1791, and they have been in the pos- session of that crzanization to the present time. One of these pieces was evidently of French manufacture, having on the base the following name and dat . Strasbourg, Par. 1 Berren- ger 1758,” with the name of the piece “La Pop- | ulaire.” ' This piece, it seems, was captured by the British from the French sometime previous to the siege of Yorktown. Upon the other piece is the name and dat “R. Gilpin, Fecit, 1756;” also the letters G. R. (George Rex) in monogram, and then the British crown with the Maltese cross. In connection with arrangements forthe York- town celebration it has been discovered that at present there is an organization in the U. 8. army that has preserved in tact its peel since 1776. This organization, now batt A 4th artillery, was first organized by the New York Provincial convention on the 6th ef Janu- 1776 and was commanded by Capt. Alex- ander Hamilton, who was subsequently first Secretary of the Treasury. This organization | served with distinction and credit in the battles | of Long Island and White Plain, the retreat through the Jerseys, at Trenton’ and Princeton, | at Brandywine, Germantown, in camp at Valley Forge, Monmouth and at the siege of Yorktown, where on the night of the 14th of October, , 1781, it stormed and captured one of the British redoubts. At the surrender of Cornwallis, when the rest of the Continental army was | disbanded this organization was speci: and alone retained in service. It joined the artille: battery in 1786, and subsequently rendered vai- uable service in the war of 1812, in the war with | Mexico, and served during the war of the rebel- lion with equal credit. It is how stationed at Fort Canby, Washington Territory. Etforts are —=— | being made to have it present at the centennial celebration and assume the post of honor. The reports from Virginia indicate a large at- tendance of distinguished guests and military. | The militia has been brigaded under the com- mand of Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and consists of the first, second and third regiments. The first willbe commanded by Col. J. B. Purcell, of Richmond, Va.; the second, by Col. Bumgard- ner, of Staunton, Va.; and the third, by Col. Weston Baker, of Charlottesville. Besides these there will be eight independent unattached com- ranies, from sixty to seventy men each; two bat- talions of colored troops, five companies of fort: mem each; and other companies (unattached and batt@riea, agzregating over 3,000 men. There will also be a of the G. A. R. of New Jersey. ro THE ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE IN GrorGETowN. This afternoon, in the Police Court, ANOTHER GOOD DAY. THE NATION’S RULER. HIS IMPROVEMENT UNINTERRUPTED. CONFIDENCE ALMOST RE-ESTABLISHED. HOPEFULNESS OF THE — SORGEONS. a It can be said without qualification that the | President passed a comfortable night. The sen- sitiveness of the gland of which he complained yesterday afternoon abated and he was without pain during the ‘hight from that cause. Hissleep was tranquil. The pulse went up during the night, as usual, and again repeated itself during the early hours of the morning by going down. The night was devoid of incident inthe sick room beyond the regular attendance uponthe patient. The morning examination demonstrated that the wound was in an improved condition, and that the healing was going on. The gland also was in an improved condition. It had dimished perceptibly, and the discharge was full and freer. An agreeable absence is to be noted as the result of the morning dressing. There was a break in what had become the daily cutting into some other cell of the gland. The great dwindling away of the gland and the absence of necessity for a new opening shows that it is healing. The bulletin this morning dwindled down to its pro- portions of the successive days when there was nothing but improvement to be noted. It was as follows: Official Bulletin—8:30 a.m. THE PRESIDENTS CONDITION AS FAVORABLE AS YESTERDAY. The President has passed a tranquil night and this morning his condition is quite as favorable as yesterday at the same hour. Pulse 100, tem- perature 98.4, respiration 18. Signed by the six surgeons. THE PATIENT HAS BEEFSTEAK FOR BREAKFAST. This morning beefsteak again made its ap- pearance in the President's bill of fare. In ad- dition to the liquid nourishment which he was given, he chewed a piece of steak and swallowed the juice. There is no doubt but that the Presi- dent has IMPROVED SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING. Gen. Swaim was this morning asked by the Srar man how the President was getting along. He replied: “The President has gained very rapidly during the past twenty-four hours. He not only feels better but looks better. The gland is doing ad- mirably, and has gone down fully three-fourths this morning. It is discharging pus plenteously and is rapidly healing.” “ How about the wound ?” “Tt is doing well. Granulation has set in, and the discharge of pus was larger this morning than usual. It was ofa healthy color. The doc- tors are well satisfied with his condition and were much pleased at the morning examination to find such an improvement. They think he is doing admirably. The President asked for a hand-glass this morning and made a critical examination of his appearance. He said he was satisfied with his looks. The President passed the night very nicely, and is in an improved condition this morning.” 10:45 4. M.—THE GROWING FEELING OF CONFI- DENCE. The surgeons regard the President’s condition this morning with increased satisfaction and en- couragement. The parotid swelling has steadily improved in appearance and it is thought that the patient has in all other respects gained ground slightly during the past twenty-four hours. He is thus far having a quiet, comfor- table day. Among the members of the Cabinet and the President’s personal friends there is a growing feeling of encouragement and confi- dence, and it seems to be the general impression that by Saturday or Sunday, when the glandu- lar swelling shall haye ceased to be a hindrance, the patient will enter thestage of convalescence. During the forenoon the President's pulse was very fair. It did not go up as it did yesterday. In Dr. Boynton’s language, the President is in better condition this forenoon than at the same time yesterday. The wound is slightly im- proved. There is more activity about it. Ithas been yery indolent forsome days. The renewed activity is not very great nor will it be for some time. The discharge of pus from the wound is greater, but still it is sluggish and not as satis- factory as might be wished for. The forenoon was passed yery quietly. There was no news from the sick room that was not good news. There being nothing new in treatment or in the general conduct of the sick room there was about the sameness of information, but it was a happy monotony. The Cabinet called during the morning, but there were but one or two visitors excepting them. The encouraging ex- pressions of hope of the members of the Cabinet were stronger to-day than yesterday. WHAT DR. REYBURN SAYS. Dr. Reyburn was asked bythe Star reporter how the President passed the night. “Very comfortably,” he answered. “How about the wound?” “It remains about the same. It is healing some.” “Does the swelling continue to go down?” “THe gland is doing very well and the dimi- nution in its size continues.” b “There was no further cutting to-day?” “No. There was no necessity for any, because the matter is discharging itself. The discharge this morning was very full and satisfactory.” “Does the President suffer any pain from the swollen gland?” “If any, but very little.” “How about the ball?” “That is a matter of very secondary im- portance. The ball causes no trouble. ‘Just now it Ig not thought of as an object of danger any more than if it were in somebody else’s body.” POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES called at the Executive Mansion this morning, but upon receiving the bulletin at the door he said: “That is good enough; I'll goto the de- partment and go to work,” and he drove away without going up stairs, DOCTOR AGNEW * expects to return to Philadelphia this afternoon. ‘THE CHANGE OF LOCALITY OF THE BALL, is perfectly apparent, and is clear proof that it has not been incysted. It has not been in its new position—a little further dowa—long ‘enough to become incysted there. Unless it should become incysted,the ball willat sometime have to be taken out. It may shift to a place where there would be considerably less danger in taking it out when the time arrives than there now is. Official Bulletin—12:30 p.m. BETTER THAN AT THIS TIME YESTERDAY. At the dressing of the President this morning the parotid swelling was found to be discharg- ing freely. It looks well and has materially di- minished in size. The wound remains in about the same state. His general condition is evi- dently more fayorable than at this hour yesteg Proposed Removal of the President. WHAT DR. BLISS SAID THIS AFTERNOON—THE = PRESINENT AGAIN DEMRES IT. Dr. Bliss this afternoon saidto a Star repor- ter that the question of removing the President was being earnestly considered. It has been decided, he sai¢, to wmoye him just as soon as it will be advisable. The President would be mmoved at an early day, he said. ‘The President this morning knowing that the physiciins were talking of the matter of removal, agai sid that he wanted to get away. Dr. Bliss tolt him that he would be Temoved the very first mbment when he was in a condition to standit. Dr. Bliss also told the President that he would ke to gratify him by sending him to Mentor, but thought that he would first haye to be moved to a nearer point. The removal would be at an eariy day, but closer than that Dr. Bliss eould not predict. Dr. Biiss does not incline to the salt water yoyage evidently, although he vill not speak definitely on the subject. THE PRESIDENT BETTER. “Do you notice any gah of desh or strength?” asked the reporter. “We would not notice any gain of flesh until it had been going on several days. I think, though, that the President shows more vitality. You know we have to tun him over on his side to dress the wound. Tlis morning he assisted us some in making thatmeyement. There are no new points where pus Jas accumulated. There is a spot on the shailder, but that does not amount to anything. I do not think there will be further accumulatins. Of course, after a while it is possible that ittle abscesses may form on the body at different points and have to be opened, but that is onlyn possibility.” “How much has the dand gone down ?” “About two-thirds @ three-fourths. It is very small no’ “Everything is satisfadory?” “Yes. That noon bulein shows that. We do not say much in the juiletins, because there is not much to be said, oher than that there is | Doane unfavorable, anl everything is favor- able.” DR. BLISS THINKS STIMULANTS SAVED THE PRES- IDEXL “Some people say that prayer has sayed the President,” said the reporter, “They may think so. In my opinion it was whisky. I have received anumber of letters to- day abusing me for using stimulants. But it was the stimulants admitistered that kept him up until the suppurationof the gland could commence. We tried to wthdraw the stimulat- ing enemata. Then the pulse would go up and act wildly. The administmtion of the stimu- lants every four hours would reduce and steady the pulse and he would boom right along.” . THE SWOLLEN GLAND. “The cause of his great weakness was the gland, was it not?” “Tt was. That gland was swollen up and was as hard asif the flesh haé been drawn over a Tock. Icould not see how the President could bear up under it until the apparently unyielding swelling began to supperate. Dr. Agnew said this morning that we could not have expected such suppuration as has sccurred from such an obstinate swelling.” ALL THE DOCTORS 3NCOURAGED. “Do the other doctors think the President's condition is satisfactory ?” “They do. They say that when they come into the room in the moming they can always tell how the President is by the appearance of our faces. I assure you our faces were bright enough this morning.” “You do not think there is any further danger of relapse?” “I db not. I think tte President will con- tinue to get along well and improve.” Dr. Bliss laughingly said in cotclusion that it might be possibie for the newsjaper men to get up some morning and not find the President in the White House. It had n@& been decided he repeated where the Presidext should be remoyed | to when the time should come. Almost change would be desirable. The question 2 where he shall go will not te decided until atter further and fuller consultatn of the physi Secretary Blaine neouraged. The following was sent tlis afternoon: Lowell, Minister, London: The President's condition {s very encouraging to-day. Pulse down to 9. Lower than it h: been for seyeral weeks. Temperature and res- | piration normal. No adyerse symptoms appa- rent at this hour (2 p.m.) Briar 3 P. M.—IMPROVEMES' retary. INUES. The President passed theafternoon up to 3 | o'clock very quietly. His pulse remained below | ahundred and he rested some. The White House was very quiet. Theday so far has been avery good one. It is much better than yester- day, which on the whole was a bad day. ANOTHER SENSATION STORY CONTRADICTED. There is no truth in the report published in a New York paper to-day that the President suf- fers severe pain in the side, and that he has been cupped there. Dr. Bliss, when his attention was called to the statemeat, said that it was news to him. THE CONSULTING SURGEONS AND MARSHALL HENRY. Dr. Hamilton this afternoon positively refused to say a word to any newspaper man. He says, he can say nothing that would afford the public any information outsizs of that contained in the bulletin, and very broadly intimated that if he thought he could he would not say it to qny re- porter. Dr. Agnew left this afternoon at two o'clock for Philadelphia. Capt. Henry will leave to-night for Ohio. He thinks that the Presi- dent ison the road to recovery. THE PRESIDENT’S CIGARS. The strength of the cigars smoked by Presi- dent Garfield has been brought up as an eVi- dence of the strength of his stomach. Collector Thomas, of Baltimore, is credited by the Balti- More Sun as saying that during an interview with the President just before he was shot, the President handed his visitor a cigar .of the strongest kind, and smoked two of them him- self while they were talking. Mr. Roose, the cigar dealer, set matters right in the mind of a Star reporter to-day. He Says he has furnished the President with cigars for fifteen years, and that the President always je very mildest cigars that can be found. Seite parton oa oat Played a joke on Gen, ave him some “ thirty-1 elgar that tad been sent to hie en THE PRESIDENT’S CHARACTER, 4S A CHRISTIAN ‘MAN. . Rey. F. D. Power, pastor of fhe Vermont Ave- nue Christian Church, has written a letter con- cerning the President’s character as a Christian man, in which he says: “Hy when it was necessary to tostintte Wee atk a has leetured publicly in tae day. Pulse %, temperature 96.4, respiration 17. | | to Major Brock by one of the I PROFESSOR BELL'S INDUCTION BALANCE. Professor Bell has notified the people at the White House that he has succeeded in perfecting the induction balance. He now says that he can locate precisely the position of the ball in the President's body. DR. HAMILTON CONTROVERTS THE THEORY OF PYAMIA. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton returned yesterday afternoon from New York to the President's bed- side. Betore his departure from New York the eminent surgeqn, when asked for his views said toa Heraid reporter: ‘I think it proper to call attention to a statement which has its source hin the White House and, therefore. mizht be rded as authori that one of the proc of the pyamic infection in the case of the Pr dent was found in the fact that he had a short time since what the reporter of the conversation denominated as ‘pustules on the back.’ These so-called pustules were simply acne, or what are nown in the books as acne simplex—such as occur yery often on the cheeks or chin of young men and which are peculiarly liable to occur on the back, being, in fact. only obstructionson the sebaceous follicles, which follicles are on the back v ‘ge and abundant. They were in- | duced by lying on his back a considerable lenzth nd disappeared in ays when they were carefully washed with soap and water.” LET! p.m.—The President has pass fortably through the day. He has taken the usual amount ofnourishment by the stimulating enemata at si rise of temperature this afterr at the same tim at noon to-da pulse less frequent tha ‘otid swelling has been ‘ » and is continuing to diminish in s' 109; temperature, 99.5; respiration, 18. RETARY BLAINE TO MINISTER LOWELL LAST NIGHT: :30 P.M.—The President, if not rapidly ad- vancing, is at least holding his own. His fever is less than last night, and his swollen gland ste ily improv. continues rather hi running t! if from 110 to 114. Perhaps the best indication in the case is that the Pre: dent himself feels better, and his mind heing now perfect! , he readily compares one | day’s progress with another.” UNION MEETING OF PRAYER FOR THE PRESIDENT. At the call of the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation, a union meeting of prayer for President Garfield’s recovery was held in Philadelphia last night. Clergymen of different denominations took part, and the feeling was one of great de- votional solicitude. A similar meeting was called for next Tuesday evening. A MEDICAL CRANK. A physician named Isaac Rosenfeld, jr., was charged with insanity in the Essex Market (N. Y.) police court yesterday. He was under the delusion that he had prescribed medicines for Pre lent Garfield, and that the attending phy- sicians and surgeons had_fai to administer them to the sick man. He was sent to the Tombs for medical examination. SENATOR BECK NOT SENT FOR BY SECRETARY BLAINE. A telegram from Chicago, August 30th, a “Senator Beck, of Kentucky, who went west to acifie road, got back and left: by this been the end of the Canadian Pi avin; laine denies haying telegraphed for & Beck. VICE PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S PLANS. The N. Y. Sun to-day says:—Vice Presi Arthur is stillin town. Among his visit were ex-Senator Com Senator Jones, and Johi members of the republi tee. The V President, it is said. will le town in a few days to spend a fortnizht in Long Branch or in the Oriental hotel on Coney Island. a eeee ts Guiteau'’s Pistol. COL. CORKHILL PROPOSES TO RETAIN CHARGE OF IT. After the President was shot the revolver used by Guitean was taken by District Attorney Corkhill from police headquarters, and a com- plaint was then made bythe police that the chain of evidence had been broken, as the offi- cer who had taken the pistol from the assas- sin—and wh . Smyth and can state commit y The question as to his right to the pistol has been reopened request trict Commis- s, to make a Col. Corkhill was asked to-day if he intended to comply with the reported demand of the Di trict Commissioners, that the pistol used b; Guitean be turned over to the police authori- ties. He said he did not intend to give the pis- tol upby any means. On the morning of the shooting, he said, there was a hearing before Judges lie, James and Hagner, when the pis- was fully identified. He regarded the action of the District Commissioners in the matter as absurd and the result of a desire for notoriety on their part. WHAT THE POLICE AUTHORITIES SAY ABOUT IT. Major Brock, of the police department, states in relation to the taking away of the pistol, used by Guiteau, from police headquarters by District Attorney Corkhill, that it was done without his knowledge or consent;that although it was an irregular way of gaining possession of it, yet he does not think it will affect the testi- mony which may be brought out in the case at the trial of Guiteau. He states that he has re- ceived no communication at all from the District Commissioners upon the subject, but that he was already engaged in collating a statement of the facts when Commissioner Morgan re- quested him to make a report of the facts and explain how it was that Col. Corkhill or any other person could take possession of property which should have been committed. to the custody of the property clerk. Lieut. Eckloff, who has charge of the detective office, states that the pistol and letters belonging to Guiteau were taken possession of by Col. Corkhill during‘his absenceat the jail when Guiteau was committed on the morning of the attempted as- sassination. On his return to his office he was surprised to learn that the articles had been re- moved. THE FIRST KIND WORDS FOR GUITEAU, received in his mail, arrived this morning, being aletter from a relative in Louisville, Ky., sign- ing herself “Cousin Ellen.” She says: “I am pained to hear that you acted so unwisely by shooting our President. But you have oursym- pathy and regards. Your cousin Mary says she will do all in her power for you. If you want any books or papers * * letus yw and we will send to you.” “YOU OLD POLITICAL DEMAGOGUE.” The following froma town in Indiana was re- ceived to-day: “You old political demagogue, why did you commit that dastardly crime and thus cause a dissolution of our party, thereby making our defeat doubly sure in 1884. Youare a stallwart of the lowest type and full of fanati- cism.” VICE PRESIDENT ARTHUR. STATEMENT BY GEN. GRANT. TORPEDO DIS THE LIVERPOOL COTTON e Vice President Arthu Nor STATE REPUBLI York, August RING. The ntion will be held at Sarat | s city, and that Gen. airmanship ¢ | attendance at the m expected te republican st on October Sth. The Torpedo Disaster, OBSEQUIES OF LIEUT. COM. ED! SPALDIN , August 31.—The funeral of Arthur will not re the committee. A full sting of the committee is It was decided to hold the e convention in New York city AND LIEVT. | emni | by the oificers aid marines from the tr | fleet and by the offic and class at the torpe station. The pall-bearers, twelve in number, were selected from the torpedo station and fr the United States ship. ciated. The funeral corteze w Admiral Porter, along with the rest of the offi- cers, Wi | were tempor in Shaplain Hayward ofti- ly entombed, A MAN MURDERS MIS WIFE AND WOUNDS HIMSELF. Bostox, August 31.—Further information in regard to the murder and attempted suicide, at | 31 Edenboro street, this city, last’ nig weeks ago the couple, Francis wife, came to the house and hired an attic room, paying the rent thereof in adyace. Not much was known of them, but they were always apparently on the best of terms, and seemed very attentive to each other. Mr. Pease FATALLY thing to d he appeared_to have consider- able money, and always paid the bills at his lodging in advance. The-couple staid at the house about three weeks, and then went away, but it is not known where. On last Tuesday | they returned and re-engaged the room formerly | occupied by them, payi | vanes At times P was seen intoxicated, and it is beli he was a ard |drinker; yet the people in the house | they have — never — heard any q between him and his wife. At about 11 o'clock last nicht the occupants o | house were startled. by | pis a ration re ¢ from the room of Pease. The ot the room was found to be locked and rricaded with a trunk. It was forced open by {a policeman and the dead body of M | Pease wa x on the floor, and the in Dr. was nds se had been hastily dressed he was c to the city hospital. “The murder w 'y the deed of a fre: man. There are four bullet wounds on the body of Mrs. Pease. One to the ‘ight of the left arm-pit; one over the heart; one in front and one back of the right ear. It i | Se there is also another wound on the | body. Py the orts from a . Tw right ear; prehead. ! of the wounds are at the base of the one in the left breast, and one in the The crime is wkdonbtedly due to sits of tntoxication. Just befure the persons in the house heard Mr. Pease go up stairs and then heard Mrs. Pease cry out. | The woman had probably been lying on the in the room before he entered, as she was par- tially undressed. Pease had his coat and shoes | off. “ The woman was p®obably shot white trying | to pe from the room. Both came from | Rockland, Me., at which place, about two years | zo, Pease married his wife, who was but 18 | years old. They hada child about ten montis | old. now in the care of Mrs. Pease’s mother, at Rockland, Me. Old World News by Cable. SYMPATHY WITH MRS, GARFIELD. August 31.—The Welsh National Fis- popular and literary gath- | , assembled at Merth: vi | a resolution of sympathy | with the American people on account of the con- tinued prostration of the Presi THE LIVERPOOL COTTON RING. Prestox, August 31.—There is a strong feel- ing here that short time should generally be re- | | sorted to in the cotton trade to checkmate the | action of the ring of Liverpool brokers who are | keeping the price of cotton a penny a pound ‘higher than it should be. Trade is unremune- | rative, many mills working gt a loss. The de- pression seems anomalous when the fact is nown that at a meeting of the board of guar- dians it was urged that no relief should be en any weavers, because there was work for ix hundred more at Preston. TO BE NOMINATED AS CARDINAL. Lonpox, August 31.—The Daily News says: “It is announced that in the approaching con- sistory at the vatican Monseigneur Freppel, well- known for his hostility to the French govern- ment, will be nominated a cardinal.” THE MANEUVERS IN THE LIVERPOOL COTTON MAR- KET. Loxpon, August 31.—The Manchester Guar- dian, in its commercial article to-day, says: The maneuvers in the Liverpool ‘cotton market are being watched with interest. The point upon which all accounts agree is that of 400,000 bales August and September deliveries, sold in spring months by “bears,” somewhat over 200,000 bales have been tendered and taken up, and the rest will have to be provided or settled for before the | close of September. The point of interest is at | what time these outstanding engagements will be closed, as thereafter it is expected that the price of cotton will decline more or less rapidly. THE EMPEROR BETTER. Berry, August 31.—The Emperor William was on horseback three hours yesterday at the inspection of troops. He seems to have com- pletely recovered from his recent iliness. BAD WEATHER FOR CROPS IN ENGLAND. Loxpox, August 31.—The weather continues bad. Low lying land in Lancashire was flooded by heayy rains yesterday. Similar reports come | from Cheshire, where almost all the entire crop ison the ground. The rain fall around Dar- lington is estimated at 150 tons per acre in 18 hours. in East Riding of Yorkshire the oats and barley sheaves are still standing in pools of water. The same accounts continue to come from nearly all parts of the country. Affairs in New Mexico. GOV. SHELDON ORGANIZING A FORCE TO REPEL INDIAN RAIDERS. Fr, M., August 31.—Gov. Sheldon has returned and issued an address announcing his intention to organize and arm it Telegrams to The Star. TER VICTIMS. | jon seems to be that the republi- | ‘and Lieut. Spalding was sol- | } ked to the cemetery where the remains | t, shows | had no employment, but was in search of some- | x for it as before, in ad- | 1 the fact i is | ease has four wounds and will probabiy | j | have won the | thing in this regatta will be ‘The Vice President and Gen. Grant, A DENIAL BY THE LATTER. Loxe Braxcn, N. J., Auzust 31.—The attene tion of Gen. Grant has been called to various none. He had only seen Gen. Arthur once since the attempt on the President’s life—at @ brief morning call about three weeks since—and no one Sie President. He continued, who showed a more profound | and sincere sorrow for the President's condition | than the Vice President. Gen. Grant did not | believe that there had been any consultations of he character described between Gen. Arthur and his political friends, Gen. Arthur could. have no sane friend who would intrude such @ subject on him, and he is the last man who would submit to such an intrusion. — The Eruption of Mauna Loa. THE ISLAND OF HILO IN PANGER PROM Lava, Vicronia, B. C., August An arrival from Honolalu reports that the island of Hilo, Sande Which Islands, was in dan sleano Mauna Loa, moving at the rate of a sixteenth y and was slowly advancing on the |town of Hilo, which would shortly be over~ | Whelmed. There was great consternation | the people, who were fleeing from the ing destruc pries, NK: n-forties, . Whe cro higher, | Ls5al.; No. | winter red, 4 October, LAdyalat puthern steady do, yellow 4, spot and August, javtoen, T4 hy —souithern, do. mxed, a4 1, 1080112. Hi Pennsylvania an Provisions Bacon—shoulders, Hams, Tales ORK, August 31 Moni xehangee—Ic ae 2 TSAA NY: ORT, 425g and steady, t Flour firm and s active and \aXy gent beter, Corn tuirly active and aljy cents hisher, ‘ NEW YORK MARKETS THIS AFTERNOOD | The following quotations were current in New | Yo 30 pan., as reported by H. Hy | Dodge, of 539 15th street, by special wire:— | Western Union, 88 N | Lake Shore, M | Ye $4; Delaware and Hudson, rthwestern, Paul, a Wabash and S44!" Dion Paciti Hannibal and Mississippi, 3 Mail, 454: °C, and ¢ oo Coal, a; Texas cL | losCing Govern | rei, 101 sal01 4; 4 | Iidall4y; 4's reg., Malle; coupon, i nee Ss The National Regatta, OTA CREW'S NEW SHELL—THE POTO- —ARRIVAL OF THE PRIZES. | The new fonr-oared shell of the Minnesota THE MIN: | Mac | club, which arrived yesterday, isa novelty on | the Potomac. It was built by Waters on the Davis plan, the oarsmen being seated so that {them are nearthe © | bow, with a | 2and No. mt Tn and two near the we ef some ten feet between No. phe Minnesota four were out prac- in the new boat last evening, and were much pleased with its movement. “The equal balancing of weights near the two extremities of the shell it is believed overcomes the tendencies of four-oared shells to sag inthe center. Mr. Michael F. Davis, of Portsmouth, Me., who sa- perintended the construction of this shell, ar- rived in the city yester Much interest is taken in the Minnesota crew, as it won the championship of the northwest at the recent regatta of the — Northwestern | Association. The for the first tin innesota will measure oars: with the Hilisdale four, who ar-oared in the National rezatta for two successive years. Another new he eight-oared race, jing for agood The Potomac club has an * this race, and oarsmen think t chance of winning. In this race will meet the Met ; the Narras to be cont regatta, the gifts of the Analostan and boat clubs, aggregating in value $1,600, arrived and will soon be placed on exhibition at Galt’s jewelry store. The District Commis- sioners have given permission to Mr. Frank D. Johns to erect a stand on the G street wharf, to be used at the regatta. Lawn Tenyis.—An ently the newly-organized lawn tennis club was held last evening at the residence of Mr. McClelland, in Le Droit Park, and had their frst practice. The club is now fully organized and will be pleased to hear from members of the older clubs now in thecity. The following officers were elected to serve one year: President, Robert M. Barr; secretary, C. McClelland; treasurer, R. Baldwin: executive committee, Henry Olds, Miss. Mary Fisher, Robert M. Barr. The Newport Catastrophe. The Secretary of the Navy is not yet in receipt of the official report of the tragic torpedo ex- plosion at Newport, R.I., whereby Lieut. Com. Edes and Lieut. Spalding, of the navy, lost their lives. It is expected the report will reach the department in this afternoon's mail. After its receipt the Si y ‘avy contemplates: the sppislanet ety ‘a board of naval officers to inquire into the particulars of the tragedy. THE NEWS BROKEN TO MRS. EDES. A telegram cy! Newport last Legg Capt. Luce, United States navy, went to an Monday night, and yed the jastic meeting of was brought to Newport at a late hour M night in a steamer chartered especially, taken to the residence of a friend. She accom- | panies the body to this city. An escort of offi- cers was detailed to take —— of the bodies and to proceed with them to their respective destinations. Lieutenant Spalding had madean engagement to meet a party of ladies Monday night and to entertain them with songs, he being an excellent singer. One of Lieutenant Spalding’s feet has been found. THE TORPEDO powder. ing about the harbor M: pieces were found on Goat Island beneath Stars and Stripes, which are at half-mast. The concussion broke several panes of glass at the island. The class at the torpedo station did not pursue their studies yesterday. The cable, mines, &c., which had been for yester= experiments were taken up. LATER—SECRETARY HUNT'S ANNOU: